马克思的民生思想及其对美好生活建设的启示

Marx’s Thought of People’s Livelihood and Its Enlightenment on the Construction of a Better Life

虽然马克思没有提出民生的概念,但其学说里却蕴含着丰富的民生思想。他的相关论述内在地阐明了民生的实质、内涵、实现路径,构成了完整的民生理论框架。从现实生活世界出发,马克思揭示了民生的实质就是“现实的人”的生活;立足于社会生活实践,马克思阐明了民生具有物质生活、社会生活、政治生活以及精神生活等多方面的内涵;从人的全面自由发展的视角出发,马克思给出了民生得以良好实现的路径:发展生产力奠定民生基础、变革社会关系拓宽民生空间、改善政治生活促进民生发展以及丰富精神生活提升民生水平。马克思理论中蕴含的民生思想,可以为新时代的美好生活建设提供理论指导和实践启发。

Although Marx did not put forward the concept of people’s livelihood,his doctrine contains rich ideas of people’s livelihood.His relevant exposition clarifies the essence,connotation and realization path of people’s livelihood,and constitutes a complete theoretical framework of people’s livelihood.Starting from the real life world,Marx revealed that the essence of people’s livelihood is the life of“real people”;based on social life practice,Marx clarified that people’s livelihood has many aspects of material life,social life,political life and spiritual life;From the perspective of the comprehensive and free development of human beings,Marx has given a way to achieve people’s livelihood:develop productive forces to lay the foundation for people’s livelihood,transform social relations to broaden people’s livelihood space,improve political life and promote people’s livelihood development,and enrich spiritual life to improve people’s livelihood.The people’s livelihood thought contained in Marx’s theory can provide theoretical guidance and practical inspiration for the construction of a better life in the new era.